Codex Desktop keeps flashing console windows on Windows while spawning Git and taskkill helpers
coka19911115 · ghdev · 2026-07-20
Codex Desktop flashes console windows on Windows while spawning Git and taskkill helpers
A GitHub issue against openai/codex says the Windows desktop app repeatedly spawns internal git.exe and taskkill.exe children, each creating a visible conhost.exe console window flash even when the app is idle.
- Captured over 90 seconds, the trace showed about 110 process spawns from ChatGPT.exe
- It included 38 taskkill.exe calls, 21 git.exe invocations, and roughly 55 conhost.exe children
- The reporter says the flashes disrupt typing and window focus
- The issue suggests the app is doing per-file Git probing and process-tree cleanup through console helpers
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